Iván

This story, which could have been true,
seems like a lie, we're going to tell it...

In the Russia of the beloved Tsar (the Tsar!)
there lived a villager named Iván
Working the land without stopping,
suffering a lot of hunger, no time to think

He sows and sows and sows as he sows
and Count Gorronovicht takes the harvest (Olé!)
The Priest asks for resignation,
he is invited to his house and eats the best

There was Iván
There was Iván
There was Iván

One fine day while he was with the hoe,
some men came... they said to him: